Laurel Lee Lyle, 68

Laurel Lee Lyle, 68, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, after her four-year courageous and stubborn battle with cancer.

Funeral services were held Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Bonners Ferry with private interment in the Grandview Cemetery.

Laurel was born Feb. 22, 1941, in Cheyenne Wells, Colo., to Clifford C. and Mable M. Lyle.

In 1951 the family moved to Bonners Ferry. Laurel attended Mt. Hall and Valley View elementary schools and graduated from Bonners Ferry High School in 1959.

She was always active in multiple school activities in elementary school and throughout high school. Laurel participated in school plays and performed in talent shows. She was the leader of the high school drill team, was active in 4-H and played the piano.

Laurel waitressed at Deep Creek Inn to earn money to attend Idaho State College in Pocatello where she was among 14 coeds to pledge Sigma Kappa, a social sorority.

Laurel met and married Jerry Kittell in 1961. They had five children and divorced in 1984.

Laurel owned and operated L's Casual Corner and Clogs and Togs, and had several rental properties. She worked as a dispatcher for the Boundary County Sheriff and as a bookkeeper at General Feed & Grain. Laurel also was employed at Kootenai River Inn.

She enjoyed square dancing, snowmobile riding, crocheting, painting, reading, listening to her old time radio and her cats.

Laurel loved her family and especially spending time with her grandchildren. She loved to travel and took numerous trips to Nevada, Hawaii, Costa Rica, Bahamas and Mexico with her friend and companion.

Laurel spent her last days in Boundary Community Hospital crocheting hats for anyone who wanted one.

She was preceded in death by her parents and brothers Ewing and Lowell Lyle.

Laurel is survived by children, Everet and Lyle Kittell and Beth Fraser, all of Bonners Ferry, and Gregory and Gerald Kittell, both of Boise; nine grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; a brother, Garvin Lyle and his wife and family of Bonners Ferry; sister-in-law Carol Lyle and her family of Ulysses, Kansas; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Donations may be made in her honor to the Local Woman's Cancer Support Group, Breast Cancer Research Susan B. Komen and Hospice.

Family and friends may sign Laurel’s online guest book at www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com. Bonners Ferry Funeral Home handled arrangements.